Story of PROPHET: ADAM (عليه السلام) PART 5

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PROPHET: ADAM (عليه السلام)

PART: 5

We imagine when Allah the Almighty decided to create Adam: 

He addressed His angel's and told 

them to prostrate before him. He did not mean to ask their opinion or take their advice, for He is 

above that. Allah the Exalted told them that He was going to create a vicegerent on the earth who 

would have children and grandchildren who would corrupt the earth and shed each other's blood.

That is why the Angel's Said to Allah the Almighty: 

"Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood!" 

(Surah 2:30). 

There are old traditions about the angels before the creation of Adam. According to Ibn Qatadah, 

it was Said that the Angel's were informed about the creation of Adam and his progeny by the jinn who lived before Adam. 

Abdullah Ibn Umar Said that the Jinn had existed for about 2000 years 

before Adam and then shed blood. Therefore, Allah sent on them an army of angels that drove 

them out to remote islands.

Allah Says: 

And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels. Verily, I am going to place a Khalifah on earth.

They Said: 

Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood.

The Angel's meant that this type of creature usually commits the atrocities they mentioned. The angels knew of this fact, according to their understanding of human nature, for Allah stated that He would create man from clay. Or, the angels understood this fact from the word Khalifah, which also means the person who judges disputes that occur between people, forbidding them from injustice and sin, as Al-Qurtubi Said.

The statement the angels uttered was not a form of disputing with Allah's, nor out of envy for the Children of Adam, as some mistakenly thought. Allah has described them as those who do not precede Him in speaking, meaning that they do not ask Allah anything without His permission. When Allah informed them that He was going to create a creation on the earth, and they had knowledge that this creation would commit mischief on it, as Qatadah mentioned, they said,

(Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood)

This is only a question for the sake of learning about the wisdom of that, as if they said, Our Lord! What is the wisdom of creating such creatures since they will cause trouble in the earth and spill blood "If the wisdom behind this action is that You be worshipped, we praise and glorify You (meaning we pray to You) we never indulge in mischief, so why create other creatures''

Allah Said to the Angel's in answer to their inquiry,

I know that which you do not know.

(2:30)

To be continued…

ان شاء الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰ

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